WordPress Smart Archives Reloaded… with added Fancy!

September 28th, 2009 | Category: WordPress

I was working on a WordPress theme recently, for a site with a not insignificant volume of posts, and found myself needing a fancy, more user friendly way of presenting the archives.

After a search of the WordPress extend repository I came across Smart Archives Reloaded by Scribu, an evolution of the original Smart Archives by Justin Blanton and while it didn’t quite achieve what I was aiming for I could see the potential to get where I was going… so I rolled up my sleeves, put my php hat and started coding.

The new fancy archive is built using a multi-level implementation of the jQuery.Tools tab control and also adds post categories and dates to the list of output tags available. After a couple of days of tweaking and testing I got in touch with Scribu to present “Super” Smart Archives Reloaded. Needless to say he loved it and offered to roll it into the core plugin.

So from version 1.7 of Smart Archives Reloaded you too can now take advantage of the “fancy” archives option and enjoy the smartest archives on the web!

You can see the archive in action here or go download it and try it for yourself… it’s as simple as upload, activate and view, and it even comes with a simple default style!

This is only my second WordPress plugin and my first to see the light of day and it feels great to give something back to the WordPress community. Thanks to Scribu for including my work in the plugin.

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  1. matt September 28th, 2009 8:31 pm

    Great work Simon, this is a great enhancement. I just might nick it.

  2. Simon September 30th, 2009 12:34 pm

    Nick away… that’s why you gotta love GPL

  3. Version 1.7 | scribu October 1st, 2009 12:16 am

    [...] release was basically written by Simon Pritchard. I just added the finishing [...]

  4. saad November 15th, 2009 1:13 am

    Awesome man.Cool

  5. Michael November 29th, 2009 12:19 pm

    Great Plugin, I’m working it into my site now.

    How hard would it be to add days under the monthly?

  6. Simon November 30th, 2009 8:39 am

    Hi Michael

    I hadn’t actually thought about that… I presume you’d have to be talking about a site with a lot of posts to justify that level of separation… I’ll take a look into it and see what I can do… I’m not sure how keen Scribu would be to roll something like that into the plugin though.

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